Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@korkeala @a_sator sure, that's a real effect, and I'm definitely not saying it was a great time. What I am saying it that it is a better option than being systematically destroyed by that more powerful neighbor, like what is happening in Ukraine today.

The upcoming #Debian trixie release will ship with apksigner v35.0.2, which supports the APK v3.1 signer rotation. It is also reproducibly built, of course. I'll make a backport for bookworm too.

@Di4na The sad part is that we still really need an organization like Mozilla. I think Mozilla goes to show you that non-profit status and free software are not enough to overcome the organization's roots in the Silicon Valley startup culture.

Kudos to Jean-Michel Aphatie for taking a stand. The colonial powers did in fact commit all sorts of atrocities and massacres. There is far too little recognition of this in Europe. On the topic of Nazis, we are taught they were a distinctly German phenomenon. What is too often overlooked is that the racial theories came from places like Stanford University. And Napolean and others set the example of militaristic state brutally conquering for its own gains.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/09/jean-michel-aphatie-quits-after-comparing-french-algeria-to-nazi-massacre

@cryptax just uploaded #droidlysis v3.4.7 to Debian. If you make a new release very soon, I can get it into the upcoming stable release "Trixie"

@bjst The European competitors are also too focused on luxury cars and government bailouts, and they are also failing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/04/australia-chinese-electric-vehicles-byd/

@network_is_reliable @fdroidorg we're working on that right now. The hard part is that the only way to prove that something is reproducible is to actually run the build yourself. Other than that, you just have to trust someone else to run it. So we need to understand how users think about this trust relationship in order to properly represent reproducible builds. It would be trivial to just put "✅ reproduced" in the UI. But what are users' expectation behind that? Any ideas?

@micahflee This is key takeaway, in my humble opinion:

"Tesla is having issues selling cars right now. You are burning unsold inventory that they can then claim to their insurance... The protests and boycotts are going strong. You don’t need to burn cars to make yourself heard."

@tarakiyee @sovtechfund Really great news! I hope this means that more places in the world can have their mapping freed. OSM is widely adopted in #Austria and local government data is synced with OSM. The OSM maps are clearly more accurate than #GoogleMaps. When properly supported, the OSM model works better than proprietary, company-owned mapping.

@jan what features do you need that are missing there?

@a_sator Too often people seem to overlook that neutrality was also a key part of what got the Soviet Union to leave #Finland, and kept them out since World War II. We'll see whether joining #NATO will be as effective.

@a_sator This seems like a good reason to consider alternate approaches to just throwing money at European militaries. Our Kreisky government demonstrated an excellent example of such leadership. They fully embraced #neutrality and figured out how to make that an effective defense policy. This also would apply on the European level. We don't need to drum up war plans against China and Russia. We wouldn't defeat them anyway. We can accept that, and make better policy for all involved.